Various: The formula for the perfect parking job was recently worked out by mathematician Simon Blackburn at the University of London.
"In November 2009, Vauxhall Motors commissioned me to write a report on some of the mathematics of parking," said Blackburn. "It was a great opportunity to describe how 'school' mathematics can be used to understand a question that lots of people might ask, and I thoroughly enjoyed writing the report."
Stanford mathematics professor Keith Devlin tells NPR's Audie Cornish, "it's actually a very clever use of simple mathematics."
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